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Jim Michalak's long awaited second book is here. Garth
Battista, of Breakaway
Books, convinced Jim to put down everything he knows about
boat building in a professionally printed and bound book.
Much of the material comes from Jim's popular online
newsletter. It has ten pages of double-size
foldout plans for Mayfly14, Jonsboat, QT Rowing Skiff, QT
Power Skiff, Piragua, and Robote, plus full building instructions
and specifications. This book is essential for anyone
who builds or even just dreams of building boats.
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Front
Cover
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Rear
Cover
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9"
X 12", 176 pages
Table
of Contents
- A
Brief Overview of Building a Simple Boat — 6
- Publisher’s
Introduction - 7
- Wooden
Boat History — 9
- Choosing
a Design — 15
- Materials
and Tools — 21
- Building
Your Boat — 29
- The
Sailing Bits — 39
- Making
a Set of Oars — 55
- Making
Sails — 59
- Making
a Polytarp Sail — 63
- Rigging
a Lugsail — 66
- Some
Other Simple Boats:
- Piragua
— 72
- QT
Skiffs — 74
- Jonsboat
— 78
- A
Taped-Seam Boat — 83
- Robote
— 87
- Using
Your Boat
- Rowing
— 91
- Sailing
for Nonsailors: Theory — 96
- Sailing
for Nonsailors: Doing It — 99
- Using
a Powerboat — 107
- Thoughts
About the Weather — 112
- Capsize
Recovery — 117
- Emergency
Flotation — 119
- Hatches
and Vents — 123
- Cartopping
Boats — 127
- Boat
Trailers — 130
- Appendices
- Powerboat
Math — 137
- Sail
Area Math — 142
- Joining
Plywood Sheets: Butt Straps and Scarfing Methods —
145
- Bevels
— 151
- Resources
(Websites, Materials Suppliers, Further Reading) —
153
- More
Designs — 159
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